Thank you everyone for voting in the Great Tree Date Debate. The results show that there is very little consensus! So now I feel better about not waiting until Christmas Eve – there doesn’t seem to be an official Anglican position on this. And reminds me that we ought to go out and get our tree, seeing as the Engineer’s birthday has now passed. We’ll be heading out sometime this week. Or I’ll be sending the Vicar out with the roofrack, anyway.
In the meantime we’re still wondering what to do with the white fibreoptic tree that someone left on our doorstep this weekend. It’s used, with some tinsel and baubels. And we’ve not yet tracked down the donor. Another Vicarage mystery.
| Answer | Votes |
|---|---|
| Other (see below) |
22%
|
| Last Sunday before Christmas |
18%
|
| When I can be bothered |
16%
|
| 24th December |
15%
|
| 1st December |
11%
|
| First day of school holidays |
11%
|
| Advent Sunday |
6%
|
| I hate Christmas trees & don’t have one |
1%
|
The other answers show us how many people are blessed with December birthdays!
| Other Answers | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Birthday driven
ASAP after 5th December (younger son’s b’day)
after 19th. sons birthday
Like the engineer on my birthday the 8th!
The weekend before my birthday (7th Dec)
Another December birthday here so sometime after the 3rd…but down on 2nd Jan!
|
6.5% | |
| Organisation driven Sometimes we do – sometimes we don’t. Depends on time When we get organised when we have time Somewhere between ‘when I mean to’ and Christmas Eve When we are fed up to hear Im nagging Steven to get it down! When I can persuade my husband that he can’t put it off any longer! | 6.5% | |
| Other dates 17th December 10th in time for the first carol service Earlier than when did not have children. last saturday before christmas the day the children break up | 8% | |
| And finally We don’t have one but we don’t hate them. | 1% |
The Vicar's Wife 
Clearly the donor is someone who thinks you should have your tree up already.
We put our Christmas tree up TODAY and that is still NINE days before my BIRTHDAY. Is that very radical?